Lyndsie Loo,
First I LOVE you and I’m super happy
for you!!!! I hope you don’t mind,
but I’m going to give you some mission tips.... I’m going to give them to you
every week until you leave… A few here and a few there. These are things that I wish I would
have known before the mission. :)
1. Forget everything that you’ve
heard about missions. Missionaries.
Elders. Sisters. Everything. The mission is a 100% individual experience and absolutely
different for everyone.
2. You need to prepare well. Spiritually, emotionally, and physically
(as in the things that you need, your suitcase, etc. The tips I have for you include all areas and I will specify
before each tip. Ha. Ha. I like to organize things.... ) Today, I’m going
to write about the spiritual preparation:
3. Read the Book of Mormon everyday
for at least 15 minutes. Love it,
cherish it, understand it.
4. Pray sincerely (kneeling) every
morning and every night.
5. Take time to be still and feel the
spirit. Pay attention to what you
feel. Write it down in a journal.
5. Go to church every week.
6. Repent daily. If there’s anything that you need to
talk to your bishop about, do it. And
if not, repent in your prayers. You
don’t have to be perfect. You just have to try your best and realize that we
are imperfect and need the help of God. I have to repent and acknowledge my weaknesses everyday
before walking out the door, so that I know I’m trying my best and relying on
the Savior to make up the rest.
7. Try your best to understand how
you are using the gospel in you life right now, how it is blessing you, how it
feels, how it guides you, and it’s basic principles so that you can clearly
explain these things to the people that you meet and your investigators. You don’t have to have a perfect knowledge
of everything; just start paying attention to how having the gospel in your
life feels and blesses you.
That is all for now, Lyndsie, my
dear!! I hope I don’t seem too trite;
I just want you to know the things that I wish I would have known and done
before the mission.
I LOVE YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH and I want
you to be a good missionary and have the best mission experience EVER!!!
LOVE YOU!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
-Hermana Hermansen
Lyndsie!
You will LOVE the mission soooo
much!! I just know it. :) You don’t need to worry about anything. It’s going to be hard, but as long as
you are obedient you will be Oh So Happy!!!! :) Today, I just have some quotes that my mom has sent me, that
perhaps you have already heard, but they are super great and have helped me a
lot!! :)
“Many young women are serving
missions. Many are preparing to
serve. Not because they aren’t married yet or have anything better to do, but
because they have a desire to serve and are therefore called to the work. The reason so many are going is because
in the next generation, Heavenly Father will be sending His priesthood army to
the earth and wants to send them to mothers who have been properly trained and
taught in the gospel. What better training can a young woman have than a
mission?”
-President
Gordon B. Hinckley
“In the young women personal progress
book, you will find these words: “You are a beloved daughter of Heavenly
Father, prepared to come to earth at this particular time for a sacred and
glorious purpose.” My dear young sisters, you need to know that you will
experience your own adversity. None
is exempt. You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for
yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come growth
and strength. It is your reaction
to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story
will develop. Sisters, we love
you. We pray for you. Be strong
and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You
are princesses, destined to become Queens. Your own wondrous story has already
begun. Your “once upon a time” is now.”
-President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
-President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Our deepest fear is not that we
are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is
our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I
to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to
be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There
is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure
around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make
manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s
in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other
people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our
presence automatically liberates others.”
-Marianne
Williamson
“Whenever we feel lost, or insane,
or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in
the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will
recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.”
-Marianne
Williamson
“Success means we go to sleep at
night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served
others.”
-Marianne
Williamson
“We can always choose to perceive
things differently. We can focus on what’s wrong in our life, or we can focus
on what’s right.”
-Marianne
Williamson
Well, hope these help!!! I love you
soooooo much!! Hope you have a great week preparing for the mission!! You will
do great! Enjoy your family these
last days and prepare well!!!
LOVE YOU!!!
-Hermana SarAwe :)
P.S. If you have the chance to watch the long Joseph Smith video
from 2005, that would be helpful before you go, if you haven’t already seen
it. If you don’t have time, don’t
worry because you might see it in the MTC. :)
